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February 25, 1957 Table Of Contents

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Coming Events

COMING EVENTS Feb. 22 through March 3

Jimmy Jemail's Hot Box

The Question: Should there be an open in tennis as there is in golf?

By Jimmy Jemail

THE BABY STARTED AT 9,066 TO 1

Once-in-a-lifetime pictures tell the heart-warming story of an obscure colt who has become one of the favored contenders in this year's Kentucky Derby

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

THOUGHTS WHILE RUNNING THE MILE, YALE GIVES THANKS FOR THE REPECHAGE, NEVER A DULL MOMENT AT BERKELEY, BACHE & CO. HIRES A TWO-STAGE ROCKET, WRESTLING SET

Spectacle

CLEVELAND CLINCHER

Champion Basilio, a banger, and Johnny Saxton, a boxer, battle this week for the third time and the welterweight championship

By Martin Kane

Tabori Wins

THE WANDERER BEATS THE BRAIN

By Coles Phinizy

Basketball

A BLESSED EVENT

No one is quite sure where the players will come from, but professional basketball is anticipating A BLESSED EVENT

By Jeremiah Tax

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Glory Road For Gun Dogs

GLORY ROAD FOR GUN DOGS

To Alabama's quail-crowded bird-dog paradise flock field trialers from all over the nation each February for the National Shooting Dog Championship

By Virginia Kraft

Dogs

BUT A HOUND DOG

An affinity for Afghans decided the Westminster classic, and out of 2,594 the surprise winner was really nothing BUT A HOUND DOG

By Alice Higgins

Tip From The Top

Especially for beginners and high-handicap players

By Art Wall Jr.

Horse Racing

SWAPS IS BACK

By Whitney Tower

Wrestling

THE MUSCULAR MAIN LINE

Motor Sports

DAYTONA'S SPEED CARNIVAL

Chevrolet and Pontiac were big winners when the Detroit task force fought the battle of the beach by the city's motel row

By Kenneth Rudeen

The Footloose Sportsman

SKIING'S CLASSIC GROUNDS

The Arlberg, Austria's snow bowl, is where it all began. For the tourist, the tyro or the terrific, it's still tops

By Horace Sutton

Snow Patrol

SNOW PATROL

Compiled by Mort Lund

Fisherman's Calendar

FISHERMAN'S CALENDAR

Conversation Piece:

THE THREE WORLDS of BIRDIE TEBBETTS

Portrait of a manager in a setting of snowdrifts and kitchen tables

By Robert Creamer

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Pat On The Back

AVERELL HARRIMAN

Departments

MEMO FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Harry Phillips

SCOREBOARD

...THESE FACES IN THE CROWD...

FOCUS ON THE DEED

FOR THE RECORD